The 2022 Wikimedia Foundation actions against users in the Middle East and North Africa region were a series of measures taken by the Wikimedia Foundation on December 6, 2022 against Arabic Wikipedia and Persian Wikipedia, which resulted in a total of 16 users being banned, including seven Arabic Wikipedia administrators. The Wikimedia Foundation stated that the Wikipedians were engaged in conflict-of-interest propaganda, while the human rights organization Democracy for the Arab World Now accused the Wikipedians of being controlled by the government of Saudi Arabia, and the action was related to the sentencing of two Arabic Wikipedians to 32 and 8 years respectively in Saudi Arabia in 2020.[1][2]